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I saw a very compelling interview with a gentleman who was once head of security of Israel's airline EL AL. He said the U.S. was reactive instead of proactive and doubted that our high-tech security measures would ever keep pace with the changing tactics of terrorists. He has a point. He advocates human intelligence as the best tool for prevention.

Here's how they do it in Israel airports. Everyone arrives to the airport three hours ahead of departure time. In addition to metal detectors, as people wait in line, highly trained personnel question everyone in line. They look at passports, ask questions about destinations, purpose of visits, etc. No one is exempt. If they determine someone is suspicious, that person is taken into a private room with their luggage and everything is searched.

The gentleman used an example of a young woman coming from somewhere in the middle east who stated her "fiancee" was sending her to Jerusalem to meet his parents and he would follow in a few days. She was to stay in a hotel until he arrived. He packed her bags with presents for his family. She had not opened her bags, did not know where she was staying and believed a hotel stay cost $50 a night. When they opened her bags, they found explosives which would not have been picked up with scanners. She broke down, unaware she had been used as a mule.